The Kaiserchronik ('chronicle of emperors') is a 12th-century chronicle of emperors, written in 17,283 lines of Middle High German verse.

But Teutonic gravitas marks his most typical work and he is strikingly responsive to German verse.

He wrote a Weltchronik (history of the world) and a Fürstenbuch (history of Vienna), both in Middle High German verse.

His work is reckoned among the best of High and Late Medieval Middle High German verse.

Äsop, an adaptation into Middle Low German verse of 125 Romulus fables, was written by Gerhard von Minden around 1370.

She died in Heidelberg, a "grande dame" of German verse, aged 96, on February 22, 2006.

"Gold of Ophir is too plain," the bass soloist exhorts (in 18th-century German verse).

While their initial albums featured mostly German lyrics, in 1975 Kraftwerk began writing lyrics that combined both German and English verses.

There have been several English translations of the original German verses over the years, but all have maintained the original trochaic tetrameter:

He was among the poets before Martin Opitz who tried to introduce Renaissance forms and feelings into German verse.